Home, Jail, PHED and in-charge Minister of Jashpur district Ramsevak Paikra has said that Jashpur district’s environment could be made better by planting 100 saplings each in all the 411 panchayats of the district.
He asked the district Panchayat CEO to make efforts in this direction. “If we discharge our responsibility honestly, we could take this district to new heights of development,” he said at a district level School Admission Festival programme organised at Government Boys’ Higher Secondary School held here.
The Minister said that under the ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’, much work had been done in the Education Sector. Under the campaign, school buildings are being constructed, besides providing grant to primary and middle schools, so that the schools function well.
He said that this age is of talents and those who work hard for education would go forward in life.
The Minister said that a boundary wall has been constructed in almost all the schools, but the teachers are not serious about planting saplings on the school campus.
Presiding over the programme, Rajya Sabha MP Ranvijay Singh Judev said that the educational situation in the district is much better under the efficient guidance of Collector Himshikhar Gupta. Education is must for the progress in any field and without education nothing could be achieved, he added.
Special guest of the function, Jashpur MlA Rajsharan Bhagat said that development would not be possible without education.
He said that schools have been opened at various places in the district, but “we should mandatorily send our children to school. Fulfilling the intention of the Government, is the responsibility of us all,” he added.
Speaking on the occasion,the Collector Himshikhar Gupta the Minister that under the Right To Education (RTE) Act, 1,000 poor children were admitted in private schools in the district.
On the occasion, Paikra and other guests honoured the meritorious students who have enlightened the name of the district in the 10th and 12th standard examinations and got admission in IIT and NIT.